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Meeting of September 11, 2005, 15:00 CET to 16:00 CET") ?>

Present:
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<li>Harald Alvestrand, Chair</li>
<li>Evert Meulie</li>
<li>Patrick Reijnen</li>
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Not present:
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<li>Sanjeev Gupta</li>
<li>Henry White</li>
<li>Claudio Brazzale</li>
</ul>

Apologies:
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<li>Anders Lund</li>
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<h2>Agenda</h2>
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<li>Roll Call and constitution of the meeting</li>
<li>Possible changes to the rest of the agenda</li>
<li>Linux Counter and Linux Trademark</li>
<li>Lost-key Incident list instead of email</li>
<li>Any other business</li>
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<h2>Roll Call and constitution of the meeting</h2>
Harald opens the Linux Counter Project members' meeting.<br>
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Harald, Evert and Patrick are present.<br>
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Find the <a href="transcript-2005-09-11.txt">transcript</a> here.

<h2>Possible changes to the agenda</h2>
Harald asks if everybody agrees with the agenda. Patrick suggests to add a point about using RT tickets for Lost-Key instead of email.<br>
Everybody agrees with this and with the other points in the agenda.

<h2>Linux Counter and Linux Trademark</h2>
LI (Linux International) has made Linux into a trademark and now tells us we need a license to use the name Linux. The license will be free. Harald suggests the following resolution regarding the Linux Trademark:<br>
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	RESOLVED, that the Board of the Linux Counter Organization authorizes
	Harald Alvestrand, as Executive Director of the Linux Counter, to
	enter into a licensing agreement with the Linux Mark Institute for
	use of the Linux trademark in connection with the Counter.
</em>
<br><br>
Everybody, including Anders (via email), agrees with this resolution so Harald will take care of becoming the license to use the name Linux.
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Patrick extends the discussion by asking whether it is possible to register Linux Counter somehow. Harald sees two possibilities for this:
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<li>registering the organization formally</li>
<li>registering a trademark on "Linux Counter"</li>
</ul>

The first action actually seems to be a prerequisite for the second one. And an application for trademark costs NOK 2300 in Norway. Also all paperwork needs to be officially translated into Norwegian.<br>
Registering the Project itself as an organisation at least partially protects against trademarks. And the registration is free.<br>
Harald suggests the following resolution:<br>
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	RESOLVED, that the Board of the Linux Counter Organization authorizes
	Harald Alvestrand, as Executive Director of the Linux Counter, to seek
       	registration of the Linux Counter
</em>

This is approved by everybody.

<h2>RT Lost Key tickets instead of emails</h2>
Harald and Patrick started the use of the RT ticket system, at first to deal with and come in control of the lists of bugs and features. But it can as well be used to deal with lost key requests.<br>

Evert likes to give it a try, so Patrick will create an account in RT for Evert. Patrick will also create a lost key queue within RT.<br>

A discussion follows about what can and cannot be done with RT. The board then decides to implement RT for the lost key requests. Evert will join for testing.

<h2>Any other Business</h2>
The only point that pops up is the fact that we should really have more voard meetings than once every couple of years. The decision is made to have the next meeting on Sunday November 20, 15:00 CET

<h3>End of meeting</h3>
As all point are taken care off, Harald thanks everybody for showing up and ends the meeting.

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